When we feel good and bad about ourselves: self-esteem memories across cultures |
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Authors: | Ivcevic Zorana Pillemer David B Wang Qi Hou Yubo Tang Huizhen Mohoric Tamara Taksic Vladimir |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA. zivcevic@unh.edu |
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Abstract: | Young adults in the United States, Croatia, and China described personal episodes of times when they felt especially good or bad about themselves. These self-esteem memories were either recent (episodes that occurred during the previous 4 weeks) or remote (episodes that occurred between the ages of 10 and 15). Systematic content differences between memories of positive and negative self-worth were apparent primarily for remote rather than for recent memories. Across cultures, long-lasting positive memories frequently represented achievement themes, whereas negative memories frequently represented social themes. Links between achievement success and positive self-regard, and between social distress and negative self-regard, are explained using theories of self-esteem and autobiographical memory. |
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